Explores the planets of the solar system and recent discoveries about their properties. Examines each planet through the lens of popular culture, astrology, mythology, science fiction, art, music and history. Includes a glossary and reference notations.
Presents a guide to the solar system, featuring photographs, illustrations, and descriptions of the solar system as a whole, each of the nine planets, comets, asteroids, and meteorites. The sun and other stars; Telescopes and space probes; Saturn and Uranus; Neptune and Pluto;Mercury and Venus; Mars; Jupiter; Human space exploration;Galaxies and the universe; Earth and earth's moon.
Contains facts, research information, and statistics on the solar system, covering astronomers, the sun and planets, asteroids, meteors, comets, stars, the universe, and space exploration, with photographs, charts, and illustrations.
Full-color illustrated photographs of the solar system including the sun and the planets, their moons, comets, asteroids, and meteoroids that go around the sun.
Presents an unabridged reprint of the English translation of Galileo's astronomical and philosophical text in which he sets forth, in the form of dialogues, his theories about the motion of the Earth and planets.
the latest information and out- of-this-world activities that teach kids about the wonders and working of the solar system
Sachatello-Sawyer, Bonnie
2000
Provides information and fast-facts about planets, investigates each planet in the solar system, discusses space travel, and includes activities related to each topic, as well as a color poster.